As the AVALANCHE did not possess a font of Greek type, the editor was obliged to reproduce the Leucadian numbers in the ordinary Roman letter, to the intense disgust of Colonel Starbottle, and the vast delight of Fiddletown, who saw fit to accept the text as an excellent imitation of Choctaw--a language with which the colonel, as a whilom resident of the Indian Territories, was supposed to be familiar.

Indeed, the next week's INTELLIGENCER contained some vile doggerel supposed to be an answer to Mrs.Tretherick's poem, ostensibly written by the wife of a Digger Indian chief, accompanied by a glowing eulogium signed "A.

S.S." The result of this jocularity was briefly given in a later copy of the AVALANCHE.

"An unfortunate rencounter took place on Monday last, between the Hon.

Jackson Flash of THE DUTCH FLAT INTELLIGENCER and the well-known Col.